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skean
[ skeen, skee-uhn ]
noun
- a knife or dagger formerly used in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands.
skean
/ skiːn /
noun
- a kind of double-edged dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
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Example Sentences
Kyral's face changed as she spoke; he drew a long breath and threw the whip down beside my skean on the floor.
The big lunk made a grab at the girl, and I whipped out my skean and pantomimed.
Suddenly, so swiftly my eyes could hardly follow, he whipped out his skean and came at me.
It is the only thing I could get, but I sharpened it myself; it has an edge like a skean.'
For an instant the shock drove the breath out of Brian, then he felt a hand close on his throat, and struck out with his skean.
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